[talkingcars]

Way back in about 1986 I was driving anti-clockwise on the M25 just north of junction 10 (A3/Wisley) at about 1am. In those days at that time of night traffic was very light and the car in front was proberbly 5 or 600 yards ahead.

I notice his lights seem to go off for a moment, as I passed the same point the whole car cut out, the lights went out, the radio stopped, the engine stopped, a split second later it all came back on.

A few days later I was traveling passed the same point durring the day light and noticed that there are overhead power lines - I can only assume the 2 are connected.

The scirroco used an early form of injection known as K-jetronic which is purely mechanical, there were no electronics in the car apart from the radio cassete, this was before the days of CD players in cars, it was only just available in the home.

More modern cars using CANBUS (the ZT/75 has this and the mk2 ZS has a vauge crude version in the MFU) use electrical pulses in the system to control the the electronics. A electro magnetic field from a pylon could cause an extra pulse that would confuse the system.